Like You Quotes - Page 33

• Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

  Drew Barrymore

  Dad, Father, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.

  Melody Beattie

  Giving Up, Growing Up, Crazy

  "Treating Codependence: Q&A With Author Melody Beattie". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 14, 2011.

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• What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you're slamming your head against the wall. So it's nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding.

  Lewis Black

  Dream, Wall, Lying

  "The angriest man in America" by Todd Leopold, edition.cnn.com. April 28, 2005.

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• This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.

  Mary J. Blige

  Thinking, Compassion, People

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• Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

  Brandon Boyd

  Art, Doe, Intangible

  "Incubus front man Brandon Boyd true to his art". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2009.

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• Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

  Danny Boyle

  Jobs, Years, Two

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• You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Funny, Pain, People

  "Terry Bradshaw bares all in 'Failure to Launch'". www.today.com. March 9, 2006.

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• I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'

  Jo Brand

  Wish, Woods, Said

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• I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

  Dan Brown

  Love You, People, Critique

  "Dan Brown on 'hurtful' reviews and saving the world" by Ian Youngs, www.bbc.co.uk. May 20, 2013.

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• I always want to make an album that lets people immerse in it, kind of like you get caught up in a good movie.

  Luke Bryan

  People, Good Movie, Albums

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• Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.

  Sophia Bush

  Mom, Running, Strong Women

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you're gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspires me.

  Nicolas Cage

  Inspire, World, Levels

  "Not much rattling Nicolas Cage these days". Interview with Andrea Mineo, edition.cnn.com. July 24, 2009.

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• But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.

  David Cameron

  Country, Long, People

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• I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.

  Dyan Cannon

  Depressing, Problem, Discouraged

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• The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.

  Drew Carey

  Vegetables, Healthy, Sensible

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• When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.

  Tracy Chapman

  Shows, Feels, Ifs

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• I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.

  Margaret Cho

  Get Better, Lucky, Genetics

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• I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

  Margaret Cho

  Jobs, Self, Careers

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• If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Stupid, Holiday, Thinking

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• I don't go on that many dates, because the truth is, anytime you go out in public with a girl when you're well-known, there are pictures of you everywhere, and it's like you're a thing.

  George Clooney

  Girl, Goes On, Truth Is

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• I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on.

  George Clooney

  Thinking, Voice, Directors

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• I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.

  Chris Cornell

  Real, People, Musician

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• You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.

  Katie Couric

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Strong Women

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• A lot of my humor does come from anger. It's like, you're not gonna pull one over on me - which is pretty much my motto anyways.

  Courteney Cox

  Anger, Doe, Motto

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.

  David Cronenberg

  Forever, Alive, World

  "Controversial visionary David Cronenberg sees technology, mankind, sexuality merging in 'eXistenZ'". Interview with Rob Blackwelder, splicedwire.com. April 14, 1999.

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